Event overview
with Professor Andrew Abbott
A widespread belief in modern informatics is that keyword indexes will speed scholarship. In this paper Prof Abbott investigates the effects of keyword indexes to British poets on the production of scholarship about those poets. He considers 22 concordances to major British poets in the years 1850 - 1950 and examine their effects on the production of PhD dissertations, MA theses, books, and articles.
Prof Andrew Abbott is the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Sociology and the College at the University of Chicago. Known for his ecological theories of occupations, Abbott also pioneered algorithmic analysis of social sequence data. He has written on the foundations of social science methodology and on the evolution of the social sciences and the academic system. Abbott is currently working on a general work of social theory entitled The Social Process as well as a book on the future of knowledge. Other recent work concerns ideas of outcome in the social sciences, the notion of "lyrical sociology," and the problem of continuity in social entities. Abbott has also written extensively on libraries and their development in the modern university.
Dates & times
Date | Time | Add to calendar |
---|---|---|
15 Mar 2011 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
Accessibility
If you are attending an event and need the College to help with any mobility requirements you may have, please contact the event organiser in advance to ensure we can accommodate your needs.